“I’m an adult. If somebody like me, I don’t care. … If you don’t like me, I don’t give a — I don’t care.”

After he went viral for saying he wanted to “smack” Mac Jones, former Patriots linebacker and two-time Super Bowl champion Rob Ninkovich called in to two Boston radio stations to explain his pointed comments about the former New England QB.

Ninkovich did not hold back about Jones during the latest episode of the “Dan and Ninko Show” podcast. He called out the former Patriots first-round pick’s demeanor while doing an impression of Jones’ usual post-game press conferences during his three-season tenure in Foxborough.

“I’ll smack the [expletive] out of [expletive] Mac Jones. I don’t care,” Ninkovich said on his podcast when co-host Dan O’Brien noted that Jones apparently does not like Ninkovich. “Do you care if somebody doesn’t like you? … “… I hope he has a great career as a backup and makes a ton of money.”

Speaking on WZLX’s “The Rich Shertenlieb Show” on Tuesday, Ninkovich was asked why he dislikes Jones so much and where that bad blood first started to boil over.

“I’ve always been critical of anybody,” Ninkovich said. “If I’m watching football and I see bad football or I see antics that I don’t agree with, I’m gonna say something about it. (Dan O’Brien) like, ‘He doesn’t like you.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t care.’ Honestly.”

Ninkovich later called into WEEI’s “Jones and Keefe” on Tuesday afternoon to discuss his comments.

“You sound much more pleasant than you did when you were threatening to fight Mac Jones,” Rich Keefe said, as transcribed by WEEI’s Brian Foisy. “What was that about?”

“Dude, I wouldn’t fight a quarterback. Are you kidding me? Come on,” Ninkovich said.

“You wouldn’t fight him,” Adam Jones added. “You’d slap the crap out of him is what you said.”

“My dad always told me if you’ve got an issue with somebody, you never strike because it could be an issue. You just embarrass [them], so that could be like a slap,” Ninkovich said. “I was just calling in because I knew you had the Ninko clip on the impression, it’s all in good fun. ‘Dan and Ninko,’ we just do a little podcast, have fun.”